Moodle Plug-In

Enhance lesson preparation and homework

Do you want to enhance your lesson preparation work with references to scientific or cultural resources (e.g. Europeana, Mendeley, EconBiz…)?
Do you want homework to not only be copied from Wikipedia, but to be enriched with content from renowned databases for science, humanities and culture? Then EEXCESS is interesting for you!
Moreover, do you use Moodle to support your lessons? Then you should use the EEXCESS Moodle Plug-In!

Installation Procedure

The plug-in consists of two components: a Moodle server plug-in which allows you to read EEXCESS content, and a plug-in for the Moodle Atto editor to insert citations. Both plug-ins have to be installed by a Moodle administrator.

In the section “Install plugin from ZIP file” select the downloaded file or drag it to the specified area.

Click the button “Install plugin from the ZIP file”

Click the button “Upgrade Moodle database now”

Click “Continue”

Change the settings if necessary and click the button “Save changes”

Installation is finished.

After installation, an EEXCESS button (for displaying the recommendations) will appear in the Atto toolbar.

Administrator settings

In Moodle: go to Site administration/Plugins/Local plugins/EEXCESS

At this stage, we have two settings:

Change default EEXCESS citation style

Change base URL for recommendations

The default EEXCESS citation style is applied for new users. The base URL serves to be able to change quickly between different EEXCESS server implementations, e.g. to use a specific federated recommender with pre-selected providers as sources.

User settings

However, users may edit their settings via the navigation block in the section “EEXCESS settings”.

Guided Tour

Search content (click on the screenshots to enlarge them)

You can select any text on any page in the Moodle site. The EEXCESS button gets animated while the system is looking for recommendations. As soon as recommendations are found, the animation stops and the number of recommendations is displayed.

Clicking on the EEXCESS button opens the recommendation display.

While writing a text (e.g. a forum post), the system gets active as soon as a paragraph is finished (by pressing “return”). The EEXCESS button gets animated while the system is looking for recommendations. As soon as recommendations are found the animation stops and the number of found recommendations is displayed.

Clicking the EEXCESS button in the Atto Editor toolbar or on top of the page opens the recommendation display. You have three options to enrich your text with recommendations:

Recent Posts

Last week, the EEXCESS Final Conference took place in Cologne, within the frame of the International Science 2.0 Conference.

In the Opening, project ccordinator Prof. Michael Granitzer presented the vision of not only ensuring open access to scientific literature and cultural online objects, but “effortless access” (Slides). Further invited speakers were Timothy Hill from Europeana […]